Schedule Baseline
Why Project Managers Should Care About a Project Baseline!
During the many years I have spent in the project management field, I have come across many project managers (PMs) wondering why they need a project baseline. Many know at the start of a project the d...
Tracking Starts with a Status Date
There are four steps involved in tracking a project: setting the status date, entering actuals and schedule revisions, rescheduling incomplete work, and resource leveling the remaining schedule. Thes...
Contingency Reserve and Management Reserve
Let’s say you are going to a friend’s house, and you expect it to take about an hour to get there. In your city; however, traffic is known to cause delays. If a traffic jam occurs, it will impact your...
Levels of Project Scheduling Proficiency
Summary ‘ Time Modeling’ is the simplest way of working with project scheduling applications (like Microsoft Project and Oracle Primavera) that everyone can learn in one or two days of training (‘intr...
Lost in Translation? 5 PMBOK® Terms Explained for Project Users
While PMI’s fifth edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)® Guide is a great source for understanding the theoretical concepts of project management, the 2013 edition of Micro...
Forecast Scheduling: The Art of Creating Dynamic Project Models
What is a ‘Project Schedule’? If you ask your team members or executives what a “project schedule” is, you will probably get an answer like: the things you create and their due dates. These due dates ...